Books. The selection of UX guides and books has grown exponentially in the past few years. Rosenfeld Media and A Book Apart are just two of a number of publishers with a UX-focused audience. The expanding supply is exceeded only by the demand for more data, more depth, and more detail. I explored the 10 best UX books of 2010 and, three years later, the time has come to follow up.
Books. Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal Rosenfeld Media To be published: early May 2013 Interviewing is a foundational user research tool that people assume they already possess. Everyone can ask questions, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Interviewing Users provides invaluable interviewing techniques and tools that enable you to conduct informative interviews with anyone.
Books. Part of the work I do is to consult, mentor and teach how to design technology products so that they better fit how people work, think, and play. The teams I work with often ask me for my ideas on the best books to read in this field. So I thought I’d update my list of favorite usability and user experience books.
Books. Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute 2012, 86 pages Abstract Innovation is an economic imperative that calls for more people to be innovating, more often. This handbook equips people in various lines of work to become more innovative. It provides specific guidance for bringing new and lasting value into the world.
Books. Doing Design Ethnography By Andrew Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie Springer Publishers – Human-Computer Interaction Series March 2012, 212 pages (Amazon link) Ethnographic approaches associated with social and cultural anthropology are common currency in systems design.
Books. I’ll admit it. I haven’t spent a lot of time in my career creating beautiful wireframes. For the past four years I’ve been designing mobile apps for internal use in a large corporation and the first casualty in every project has been design documentation.
Books. Make It So – Interaction design lessons from science fiction By Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel Rosenfeld Media September 2012 ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-98-5); digital editions (1-933820-76-4) Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows.
Books. By Erin Walsh Published: September 17, 2012 “We’re user-centered designers, so the first thing we thought about was our audience for our book. ”—Jesmond Allen In recent months, I’ve found myself rereading staples from my UX bookshelf in preparation for a course that I’m teaching. Regardless of how fascinating the subject matter, it tends to get a bit dry around book five.
Books. I’ve never been one to use a lot of inspirational tools, like decks of design method cards. Day to day, I figure I have a very solid understanding of core practices and can make others up if I need to. But I’ve also been the leader of a fast-paced team that has been asked to solve all kinds of difficult problems through research and design, so sticking to my personal top five techniques was never an option.
Books. This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases Edited by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider BIS Publishers, 2011 376 pages (Amazon link) This is Service Design Thinking outlines a contemporary approach for service innovation. Service design and design thinking are lately evolving into buzz words for management and business consulting.
Books. Designers spend a lot of time giving advice to each other. There has been a litany of books by designers for designers. There have been a few by business people on how design can benefit business. But there have not been many about the process of design and creativity at the most fundamental level of all--the human brain.
Books. As technology has advanced, the importance of how humans interact with systems, machines, and each other, have also advanced into a fusion of disciplines, coalescing under the banner of "user experience. " And though "experience" is a vast and abstract notion that is highly contingent on the user, successful experiences in either service or product design are ultimately based upon solid design principles.
Books. Patterns for mobile application design Design patterns for mobile are emerging as the platform matures. Theresa Neil’s new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery provides solutions to common design challenges. Read a sample chapter on Invitations and learn how to immediately engage your customers with your application. We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked.
Books. It’s taken a while to arrive, but Lou Rosenfeld’s Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers was definitely worth the wait. Rosenfeld is an important voice in the information architecture and UX community, considered by many to be a pioneer in the information architecture space after writing the seminal “Polar Bear Book,” Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, with Peter Morville in 2002. While some may.
Books. Aside from being online, nearly every website is a unique endeavor. Likewise, its content, its structure, and its users, too, are all markedly different. For this reason, those of us who design websites rely on pattens to provide a consistent experience. One pattern that’s changed relatively little – at least from a user’s perspective – is search.
Books. Very excited to let you know that you can now purchase my new book Mobile First in paperback, PDF, ePub, and mobi formats from the fine folks at A Book Apart.
Books. Lin Pernille When talk builds about making seductive interactions, it’s nice to have people like Stephen Anderson giving us his two cents. Here are my two cents on his two cents. When I started studying for my degree in Interactive Media Production, I had never heard of UX and neither, dare I say it, would’ve any of my lecturers. UX wasn’t something that was covered during my 3 years of study.
Books. Mobile First Luke Wroblewski A Book Apart October 2011 Abstract Our industry’s long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over. Former Yahoo! design architect and co-creator of Bagcheck Luke Wroblewski knows more about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to-the-point guidebook.
Books. I devoured my advance copy of Mobile First in less than three hours. Not a second of that time was wasted. Luke has packed oodles of data, scads of examples, and years of experience into this admirably brief book. It's a brilliant explanation of why we should design for mobile first, and how.
Books. By Laura Keller Published: September 19, 2011 “This Is Service Design Thinking… is likely to become the quintessential service design textbook for students, educators, and professionals alike. ” If you’re like me, you have a mini-library of those user experience books that are most meaningful to you. No, not the ones hidden away on your eReader, reminding you of their presence only when you see their titles on the screen.
Books. By Greg Nudelman Ideas from and an introduction to the author's new book, "Designing Search. " This article introduces concepts from the authors’ new book, Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success. You can download a sample chapter, entitled "Optimizing eCommerce Search Results Pages," and you can also enter to win one of five free copies in a UX Magazine giveaway. read more .
Books. In the ever-changing and expanding world of the web, reaching the end user effectively is paramount in the minds of businesses, writes Stephanie Hamilton on Onextrapixel (OXP), a weblog dedicated to delivering useful, comprehensive and innovative information for designers and web developers. We are entering a new age of Web design and development where this concept is apparent now more than ever,” she says.
Books. To get the U. S. economy growing again we need to fire the M. B.
Books. By Kristina Mausser Published: July 18, 2011 Lou Rosenfeld’s newest book, Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers, has been the subject of more prelaunch buzz than most UX books have gotten this year. It seemed everyone was tweeting, talking, or speculating about it before the ink had even had a chance to dry. And, true to the hype, this book delivers in spades.
Books. I just finished reading Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman (previously announced here) and consider an important contribution to our field, and this for three precise reasons. First, Norman has a huge reputation, also outside of our professional UX sphere.
Books. By Giles Colborne An excerpt about the three types of user encountered in design. This is an excerpt from my new book, Simple and Usable, released this month by Peachpit Press. UX Magazine is also running a giveaway for five copies of the book. If you'd like to purchase the book, visit the book's page on peachpit.
Books. By Suzanne Ginsburg Info about the new book, including a sample chapter and an opportunity to win a copy. You can download and preview Chapter 7: "Prototyping App Concepts. " UX Magazine is also running a giveaway for five copies of the book. If you'd like to purchase the book, visit the informIT website.
Books. In this round-up of book reviews we are moving from usability testing to business ideas and children. We reviewed Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’, a collection of essays called ‘Mobile Technology for Children’, 37Signals’ ‘Rework’ and Donna Spencer’s newest book ‘A Practical Guide to Information Architecture.
Books. When we say that the design must “tell a story,” we are not just talking about games or interactive fiction, or even about turning a work application into an adventure (“Conquer the benefits allocation maze…”). Instead, we mean the kind of stories that help you create new designs.
Books. Usability pro Dana Chisnell reviews the new book by Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte. NOTE: UX Magazine is running a give-away of the book reviewed in this article and it's not too late to enter! Damnit. I wanted to write a book like Remote Research (Rosenfeld, 2010), but these guys beat me to it.